New for February 2022

February 1, 2022

New for February 2022

A popular blessing at the family dinner table includes the words "and make us ever mindful of the needs of others"--the theme of my art selections for February. Our responsibility to provide for those less fortunate than ourselves is graphically portrayed in Christ's story of the Rich Man and Lazarus in Luke 16:19-31 and in the trio of new works on the Gospel narrative added this month to The Parables of Christ gallery of The Life of Christ section. Texas Painter James Janknegt and Florida Printmaker Kreg Yingst transpose the story of the wealthy glutton who feasts while a poor man starves on his doorstep to modern-day America. Janknegt presents the former as a fast-food addict with a supersized appetite and the latter, as an ailing, street person cadging change. Yingst depicts the contrasting pair (left) as a physically-challenged beggar grabbing for the cigarette butts tossed by a limo rider.  Czech Graphic Artist David Wojkowicz offers us an abstract expressionist depiction of their meeting in the after life, where a clear dividing line separates the rich man, now enduring the torments of Hades, from Lazarus, resting in the the Bosom of Abraham. (John Kohan)